do wars on things every work?

Question

war on drugs
war on poverty
war on terror
all massive failures
we need to stop waging war against things and start defining an enemy
whats next war on homosexuality, look out San Fransisco your goin down.

Answer 1

How about the war on slavery
or the war against the Kaiser
or the war against the Spanish
or the war against Hitler
or the war against the Soviet Union

deaity, the number was six million jews. Are you trying to rewrite history or was that just a typo?

Answer 2

To win a war on any of the these; you must define the problem and fix it. Most Politicians will throw money into projects that sound and appear appropriate but do not put anything or very little into resolving the problem

Find the root cause(s)

Finance a program to rid the root cause(s)

Sustain and educate the community how to keep it effective.

In the short run it will cost; but in the long run it will pay back with many benefits.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

world war 2 was a victory against a deadly fascist regime.
even though we were too late to save 3 million Jews, we still managed to topple one of the most destructive and murderous regimes the world had ever, and still has ever seen.
the defeat of the Nazis freed occupied Europe, and the cost in blood is to be honored.
So, yes, some wars are worth fighting, although I don not believe in going to war for another country's fossil fuels.
World War 2 is a shining example of how the world stood up and NO to fascism.

Answer 4

Wars only work if you seriously "prosecute" them.

the war on poverty in the US is a joke. Poverty level in the US is defined by a percentage of average income. Unless the liberals manage to set minimum wage to equal the amount that Bill Gates makes... there will ALWAYS be some percentage of the people in poverty by that definition. Therefore.... thats just a feel-good campaign promise.

The war on terror is working... No terrorist bombs are going off in the US.

As for a war on homosexuality... the "gays" have been waging war on morality for the past 40 years.

Answer 5

If the elites ever declare war on something, that means they want it to remain while they maneuver to get a "piece of the action." The War on Drugs was not intended to stop people from taking drugs, God knows the elites all use lots of drugs, but they wanted us to stop taking drugs that made us more aware and likely to protest their behavior. So, they stopped the flow of grass and hash and closed down the legal laboratory LSD, replacing these drugs with crack, meth and heroin which they could easily make huge profits from.
Their certainly was no desire by the elites to end poverty, for that would end their supply of cheap labor. Instead, they worked hard to increase it by encouraging dirt poor laborers from Mexico to cross the border, thereby increasing their profits off of cheap labor.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0308-20.htm

And finally, The War on Terror is itself Terrorizing people all over, especially in the Middle East, thereby increasing Terror, something that again profits the elites, for they make all the weapons and tools of war, and supply the planes, ships, food etc. for the troops. Further they sell weapons to the other side, guaranteeing profits from both sides, and insuring the conflict goes on. "Stay the Course" is the elite theme song.

These wars work for the elites who wage them, but are a disaster for the rest of us. Time to stop playing their game.

Answer 6

I think you're right, it's a failed approach and the wonder is that they keep trying it on new problems.

The campaign on littering, back in the 60s and 70s, made a big improvement - maybe because they didn't call it the war against litter?

Answer 7

needless to say that's no longer real. The asserting comes from a narrative via John Lyly in the late sixteenth Century...it is not a rule, or a regulation, or perchance a stable theory. it is purely somewhat of a advantageous prose.

Answer 8

War on Nazis and Fascists worked in the 1940s.

Answer 9

No --- declaring "war" on something just brings it more to people's attention -- and violence is not a solution to any of those problems.

Answer 10

unfortunately, the answer from DC is to dump more money into earmarks and special interests, that will fix the problem (if the problem is underpaid politicians)!

Vote for a change, vote for Ron Paul!